Hi,
I'm very new to Wordpress so please excuse me if I seem ignorant towards the functionality of Worpress.
I would like to develop a custom plugin that allows administrators of the website to send push notifications for registered users (both individual user and groups of users) and I'm not sure of the best method to accomplish this. I've done this sort of thing within other CMSs but I'm unfamiliar with what Wordpress can offer with regards to adding custom entities and fields.
My understanding, and please correct me if I'm wrong, is that there are two options. Option 1 is to use Wordpress to create custom post types, and option two is to manually create tables in the Wordpress database and use those tables to store my custom data.
Is my understanding correct? If so then could someone give me a few pros and copns of each method. If I'm wrong then I'd appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance for your time.